Celtics Bench Can't Pull a Rabbit Out of Their Hat! Loss vs ORL 4/9

[Dogen]

Safe to say JD is miles away from being somewhat decent 12 dude on the roster.
He again looks lost and doenst know what to do.
Walsh experiment might be over too

Yes that was my takeaway too. Walsh not playing in the second half feels like a sign that Mazzulla is ready to move on. Per spotrac, he has 200k guaranteed next season with a full guarantee on opening night so I'm guessing they'll give him a final chance in camp before making a decision but right now it's not looking great.

I give Walsh one more year, but do nothing with JD other than wish him luck finding an NBA contract this summer.

I'd like to give Walsh another year too. But in two years he hasn't shown the ability to succeed in Mazzulla-ball, and there is a need to fill his role next year. What to do? Back to G-League? No. Trade him? For what?

Miles Norris looked more comfortable than Walsh out there. He went to his spot and made himself available for some swing passes, and the shot looked confident. He also has the 'ups' that Walsh has and can crash the boards.

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Yes that was my takeaway too. Walsh not playing in the second half feels like a sign that Mazzulla is ready to move on. Per spotrac, he has 200k guaranteed next season with a full guarantee on opening night so I'm guessing they'll give him a final chance in camp before making a decision but right now it's not looking great.

I give Walsh one more year, but do nothing with JD other than wish him luck finding an NBA contract this summer.

I'd like to give Walsh another year too. But in two years he hasn't shown the ability to succeed in Mazzulla-ball, and there is a need to fill his role next year. What to do? Back to G-League? No. Trade him? For what?

Miles Norris looked more comfortable than Walsh out there. He went to his spot and made himself available for some swing passes, and the shot looked confident. He also has the 'ups' that Walsh has and can crash the boards.

is it a sunk cost fallacy to figure that we've put two years into the Walsh developmental scratch ticket, so might as well re-up for a 3rd?
can imagine a world in which his roster slot and small salary is given to a vet ring-chaser instead
to be clear, I like him because I've seen him play impactful defense with a body build that reminds me of Dennis Rodman -- and he has very occasionally flashed some offensive playmaking potential -- but admittedly that was mostly in the Summer League, and he has looked like your average athletic guy from the park on the NBA court so far. Which is to say: totally lost and unlikely to make it happen.

[ThePigeon]

I like young players and like see them succeed, but the guys we have now are not good enough. You can see really fast if a player can play in the NBA (like the late Reggie Lewis in the 3-4 minutes he would get at the end of blowouts or this year's Rico)

I think we now know that we need to end the Walsh and JD experiment. They are not NBA players and we don't have the time or the cap space to make them NBA players
I'd rather draft ready/older players or sign some good players from Europe for the 13-14 spots
Jaylen Hoard, Antonio Blakeney and such
We need players to eat minutes and be able to contribute immediately for the championship window we have and with the cap space situation we have